MAYBE IMPORTANT: This is similar to an error I have been getting from Fireuploader (which is a FTP style interface to upload/download files to box.net, picasa, rapidshare and other file storage utilities.) The problem with Fireuploader started all of a sudden also about 2-3 months ago. I reported this to Fireuploader developers several times, but never heard any reply, and they are on a updatefrequency=wheneverbutnotsoon schedule. The exact error they give is:

I have two systems side by side, one WinXP mature and stable. One Vista, fairly new, as unstable as Vista is.The FEBE problem occurs only on the Vista system, the Fireuploader problem consistently occurs on both systems. Actually I would have sworn that the FEBE problem occurred on both systems, but it worked tonight on the WinXP as I was going through double checking before submitting this thread.

Ok, so after looking at all that, I figured that the problem was probably box.net had changed something, so I contacted them first. Well after multiple interactions with a first line support typist who could not read and comprehend, I finally explained it with color coding back to the original email and they finally said:

"Ok we passed this on to the developers and they will contact FEBE and Fireuploader"

So this is a forewarning they might contact you about the problem. Tell me what info you need or if you want me to try it with the debug extension and I'll be happy to do that. Hopefully the email forum notification is working with phpbb3

And finally, if you do know what the problem is, suggestions are welcome.

And just as an additional note, in the FEBE Options, the 'Test Login' works ok, the 'View Box.net Folder' works ok, the 'Upload ... last backup...' gives the above message, and the 'Box.net info page' gives a 'Page not found' from the http://www.jdoqocy.com web side. (never had tried that one before)

and, yes the directory exists, its still there from the last backup (I don't ever delete it.)

aside:was a bit weird on the options window, the field for this directory is squished, so you only see the top half of it... like its displaying and then something overlays it... i've see this infrequently before in some window displays in different programs, but never knew quite what was causing it. seemed to be some programming issue on window creation.

Status as of this moment:Two computers running FEBE.#1 XP,FF3.5.8, FEBE 6.3.2.1 - Box.net uploads ok, everything worked until a few minutes ago when I upgraded a number of OTHER extensions... then the box.net upload stopped working with 'wrong input xml'. weird. loaded 6.3.3 and works now.#2 Vista,FF3.6, FEBE 6.3.3 - Box.net was not working (wrong input xml) until I updated to 6.3.3. Now its working, kinda. It logs on ok, it seems to upload ok, but the box.net upload window never finishes and got this error:

Now, this message which is from the log is different from the 'error popup' msg I got when it finally timed out after about 20 minutes. I didn't copy that one, because I was wrong thinking it would put it in the log (which its always done in the past.)It was something about the MAC code having an error or mismatch, but that's all I can remember now.

Now I switched to doing fool profile backups instead of selected backups, which I'm not sure was a wise choice or not.

But there's the status. Looks like 6.3.3 fixed the 'wrong input xml' problem, but there may be some issue still not handling an exception in the upload process.

Here is the response from box.net. Embedded in this is a response from the manager of OpenBox, which is the third-party interface.

Hello,

Thank you for your message.

The message below is from our OpenBox Manager:

The issue is that FEBE still uploads through HTTP and not HTTPs. Neither FEBE nore FireUploader took my warnings that they need to use HTTPs. This is why I haven't added either of these apps to our OpenBox directory, as they did not pass our QA tests.

These are third party applications that are not supported by Box.net, but we are working with them to try to get these issues resolved.

This customer could actually choose to disable SSL from Settings, and then these applications will work. But that would sacrifice the security benefits of SSL.

You can try this recommendation, but that would mean you would lose the data encryption of your files in transit to our servers.

We hope this helps. Please contact us if you have further questions.

Sincerely,The Box.net Team

Apparently they added the SSL option somewhere along the way and forgot to tell anyone. I searched through all the announcements of service upgrades, etc. and there is no mention of this "feature."

They could have mentioned this during the previous interactions I had with them about the problem, and maybe a faster resolution for me would have occurred.

I'm turning it off. I don't use box.net for any secret or subversive activities and don't anticipate that requirement in the future. If someone really wants to spy on me they are welcome to be bored. It's their life.

I thought I had the http/https issue resolved awhile ago. Anyway, it worked for me with both free and paid accounts. I've uploaded FEBE 6.3.2.2 with some changes. Can you try it with SSL both on and off?